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splasch
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Jan 13, 2019

Outlook for Mac 2019 - Search not working :-(

Hi there New contributor - I have just upgraded Office 2016 for Mac to Office 2019 for Mac.  The Spotlight Search option in Outlook no longer works - I get no results, even when I am looking at an e...
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maxmueller_89
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Mar 04, 2019
We gotta wait for this probably: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/search-doesn-t-work-in-outlook-for-mac-after-macos-upgrade-b73de6f1-aeb9-4720-bbbe-de65ab50012e
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    cbarrick1
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    Jul 22, 2020

    I think this is working now. But you have to also do the MacRumors fix to "rebuild the spotlight search index of Outlook" maxmueller_89 

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      cbarrick1
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 28, 2020

      cbarrick1I can confirm that this is working now--after upgrading to MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 you then need to reindex the message folders with spotlight as outlined here https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/rebuild-spotlight-search-index-on-mac/

       

      I am running Outlook for Mac 16.39 (20071300)

       

      . . . now if I could only get some help in creating a Smart Folder that has all items in both Sent and Inbox 😕

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    cbarrick1
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 21, 2020

    Well I've now upgraded to Mojave 10.14.6 but I havent seen an improvement in the search functionality--is there something particualr that need to be done? maxmueller_89 

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      zahmedk
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 21, 2020

      cbarrick1 Update is needed for Outlook and not for OS.

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    blooptime
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 10, 2019

    This didn't work. I upgraded to 10.14.5 and same problem persists and is even worse. 

     

    MS needs to fix this and FAST!

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    Intergrator
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 15, 2019
    This worked for me (Outlook 2019 search working again) https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/rebuild-spotlight-search-index-on-mac/

    Hope you guys have some luck.
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      Damien_1
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 20, 2020

      Intergrator 

       

      hey thank you very much for sharing this. Was ready to pull my hair out, totally worked. Thanks a lot.

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      merlyn55
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 21, 2020

      Intergrator This worked.  Thanks.

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      Mike Yard
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 10, 2019

      Intergrator , in spite of what another poster said about this being only to rebuild the spotlight index on a drive, it worked for me. Outlook 2019 is searching again. Thanks!

       

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